Nolan’s Reviews > The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence > Status Update
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- childhood competing in chess tournaments
- teenage years working at a gaming company, Bullfrog productions, inventing a theme park game with agents
- undergrad life at Cambridge
- his first gaming company, Elixir Studios, and a co-founder breakup
- postgrad life at UCL in Neuroscience
- founded Deepmind and funded by Founders Fund
- got acquired by Google
- built AlphaGo
— Sep 04, 2026 01:40AM
- teenage years working at a gaming company, Bullfrog productions, inventing a theme park game with agents
- undergrad life at Cambridge
- his first gaming company, Elixir Studios, and a co-founder breakup
- postgrad life at UCL in Neuroscience
- founded Deepmind and funded by Founders Fund
- got acquired by Google
- built AlphaGo
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- Demis underestimated language models
- AlphaFold story
- AI race on LLM models
- Google Brain and Deepmind merged
- Google models are always behind
- Deepmind’s been really big at RL and still got beaten by GPT o1 model
- Google’s CoT paper and other attempts
- Demis won a Nobel prize in chemistry
Now Hassabis stepped down to be the president of Deepmind and Silver founded Ineffable Intelligence.
— Sep 07, 2026 10:47PM
- AlphaFold story
- AI race on LLM models
- Google Brain and Deepmind merged
- Google models are always behind
- Deepmind’s been really big at RL and still got beaten by GPT o1 model
- Google’s CoT paper and other attempts
- Demis won a Nobel prize in chemistry
Now Hassabis stepped down to be the president of Deepmind and Silver founded Ineffable Intelligence.
Nolan
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- AlphaGo’s win over Lee Sel Dol
- AlphaGo Zero focusing on RL
- Elon’s fear against Sergey and Google’s control of AI
- Founded OpenAI with Sam and Sutskever
- Focused on RNN and Seq2Seq but not good
- Google released a transformer and “Attention is all you need” without RNN
- GPT came out
— Sep 05, 2026 03:02PM
- AlphaGo Zero focusing on RL
- Elon’s fear against Sergey and Google’s control of AI
- Founded OpenAI with Sam and Sutskever
- Focused on RNN and Seq2Seq but not good
- Google released a transformer and “Attention is all you need” without RNN
- GPT came out